When Herman Mark left Austria in 1938, after the Nazi invasion, he drew platinum into wire in his lab, made coat hangers, and he and his family put their clothes on the hangers and marched themselves right out of Nazi controlled Austria. Eventually he made it to Brooklyn. Interestingly, when Mark was teaching earlier at Karlsruhe, his students included Edward Teller, Leo Szilard and Eugene P. Wigner -- a nice little collection of brain power, I would say! The German's didn't have a problem with young immigrant scientists until Hitler came along. Then of course the Jewish scientists left if they could. Is history about to rhyme in the United States?